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Informationen zum Autor David Stuart Davies is an author! playwright and editor. His fiction includes six novels featuring his wartime detective Johnny Hawke and six Sherlock Holmes novels - the latest being Sherlock Holmes & the Devil's Promise (2014). He has also penned a series of dark gritty crime novels set in Yorkshire in the 1980s. The first! Brothers in Blood ! appeared in 2013 and the second! Innocent Blood in 2015. He is committee member of the Crime Writers' Association! editing their monthly publication! Red Herrings! and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. David is regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes and is the author of two Holmes plays! Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act and Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life ! which are available on audio CD. He has written all the Afterwords for all the Collector's Library Holmes volumes as well as those for many of their other titles. Klappentext These stories of the rivals of Sherlock Holmes are drawn from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Zusammenfassung The Collector's Library volumes of short stories - "Best Ghost Stories"! "Best Fairy Stories"! "Celtic Fairy Tales" and "Tales of the Macabre" have proved popular throughout the world. This new collection of detective stories of the golden age includes intriguing tales by Edgar Allan Poe! Edgar Wallace! G.K. Chesterton! 'Sapper'! E.W. Hornung! and Arnold Bennett. These masters of the genre are joined by less well-known but equally skilled writers such as Arthur B. Reeve! Maurice LeBlanc! Ernest Bramah! Mrs Henry Wood! Stacy Aumonier and Herbert Jenkins among others.
